August 2017 Culture and Society
Read the articles selected in August 2017
Alexandra Elbakyan pirate d’articles scientifiques
Source: Le Monde, 28 July
Her hacker site allows the free integral circulation of scientific information in every discipline, putting a problem to editors. Although persecuted by justice, she has been acknowledged as a person who has made possible a progress of science and the common good, in disobeying an unfair law.
Prévert, “Les Visiteurs du soir”, et un synopsis enluminé
Source: Le Monde, 28 July
Before he started writing a screenplay after the rules of a film writing, Jacques Prévert defined characters and situations making them live freely on a drawing sheet. There are seven documents related to seven films written by the poet. One of them has been bought by the Biblioteque nationale de France.
What is the moral compass of “Game of Thrones”?
Source: The Economist, 24 July
Every story has a moral. In Games of Thrones every death carries its lesson, and character’s attitudes and choices have consequences. If the evil does win sometimes, as in the real life, it’s because of the rigid fixation of a principle or tradition. Flexibility and cunning are the new moral.
“Nous vivons à l’ère d’une hypertrophie du moi”
Fonte: Le Monde, 28 Luglio
In the time of numerical relations, how is changing psychoanalysis? The new technologies have modified the relationships of individuals each other and with themselves. The automatism of digital operations unfolding the whole world steps over the existential temporality of the subject.
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